Class Warfare

One primary goal of any “good” socialist is class warfare. Subversively encouraged by individuals with an agenda, people with similar socio-economic backgrounds group together and begin to look at people with circumstances other than their own as the enemy. As the people of this “group” begin coming together with others of like mind, they feel emboldened to make demands on those of another socio-economic circumstance, feeling that those of other classes owe everything they have to their class. Rather than directing their energy to improve their own circumstance, they begin making demands on the other classes to improve their lives for them. An effective socialist leader will then take that energy, and use it to bring the other groups more in line with the living conditions of those in the lower class. This is realized, usually through the oppressive taxation of the upper classes, bringing their income down to an “equitable” level, and the increased money gleaned through this taxation is then used for social programs to be enjoyed by all.

The goal of the socialist is not really to bring the wealthy more in line with that of the poor, though they will make the claim of that being their objective. They would insist that their modus operandi is to take a “fair” amount from the wealthy, as they can afford it, spread that to the lower classes, bringing all the groups more in line with a perceived equality in circumstance. The true goal of the socialist is to do away with the “middle class”, leaving only the poor and the powerful.

As witnessed yesterday in the testimony before Congress of current AIG CEO, Edward Liddy, class warfare is reaching a crescendo. According to his testimony, employees at AIG are receiving death threats, including the demand that executives and their families should be “executed with piano wire around their necks.” The threats of violence have become so extreme that Mr. Liddy has had to hire armed guards to post outside of their offices. Rather than direct their anger at the politicians on Capital Hill who paved the way for the poor to bail out the wealthy, and lacking understanding of just who the REAL thieves are, angry Americans are growing ever more agitated by those that they perceive to be their oppressors… The legislators should rightfully be their target, but it is the wealthy citizen that is the target of America’s angst.

Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut seemingly wrote the line in the bill that made it possible for the AIG employees to receive their bonuses. (Dodd has received the most contributions from AIG of all political figures.) Originally he claimed to have inserted restrictions on said bonuses, which he insisted was tampered with AFTER the bill left the Senate. His story has evolved in short order, and he now admits that HE had re-written the provision at the behest of Treasury to permit the bonuses to occur.

“The buck stops here” Obama, insists that he can’t be held responsible for this “oversight” as he didn’t write the bill. He DID, however, SIGN it into law, and that without reading it. In fact, NONE of the people responsible for this travesty READ the bill, as the 1,100 page bill was only presented to the Congress a few short hours before the vote was taken. Each of the politicians that either voted for or signed this bill into law should be the rightful targets of America’s anger. Sadly, that does not seem to be the case, and feeling encouraged by the citizen revolt against the receivers of the bonuses, Congress is now planning to tax said receiver’s bonuses at 90%. They are, in fact, working on that bill as I type.

Once the precedent is set that Congress may target individuals with specific taxation requirements, not applicable as a whole,  be prepared for that practice to carry over to other sectors of society. As the anger directed at the “haves” increases from the “have nots” we can expect more targeted legislation to give the lower classes satisfaction of perceived fairness. Call your representatives now and tell them to vote no when and if this bill comes to the floor. The damage done by bailing out private sector businesses cannot be undone by writing more bad legislation.